Key Issues
The World Privacy Forum works on a variety of issues. You can explore our ongoing work by clicking on any of the issue areas below. You can also visit our project pages, which represent collections of our work in our key areas of focus. Our project pages can be found at the bottom of each page in the navigation box.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Aadhaar
- Africa
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- AI
- AI Governance
- AI Governance on the Ground Series
- AI Governance Tools
- AI Impact Assessments
- American Health Information Community (AHIC)
- AnnualCreditReport.com
- Archived Policy
- Article
- Article 29 Working Party
- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Group (APEC)
B
- Behavioral Advertising
- Best Practices
- Big Data
- Biometrics
- Blog Post
- Border Crossing Information
- Brasilia
- Briefing Paper
C
- C20
- California
- California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- CES
- China
- Chronology
- Churchill Club
- Cloud Computing
- Collective Privacy
- Common Rule
- Complex Data Ecosystems
- Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)
- Congressional testimony
- Consumer Alert
- Consumer Excellence Award
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- Consumer Guide
- consumer list brokers
- Consumer Privacy
- Consumer Tips
- Cookies
- Council of Europe
- Country: Canada
- Country: Chile
- Country: Japan
- COVID-19
- Credit Bureau
- Credit Freeze
- Cross-Border
- Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity
D
- Data and Development
- Data Breach
- Data Brokers
- Data Ecosystems
- Data Entanglement
- Data Ethics
- Data Fusion
- Data Visualization
- Databases
- De-Identification / Anonymization
- De-Identification and reidentification
- Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
- Developing economies and privacy
- Digital Exhaust
- Digital Health Ecosystems
- Digital Privacy
- Digital Signage
- Digitalization
- Digitial Identity
- DNA
- Do No Harm
- Do Not Call
- Do Not Track
- Drones
E
- E-mail, Web, and Social
- EDPS
- Education privacy
- Electronic Health Records
- encryption & privacy tools
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Essay
- EU - US Data Privacy Framework
- EU - US Privacy Shield
- European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA)
- Event Announcement
- Events and Conferences
- External Resources
F
- Facebook Privacy Guide
- Facial Recognition
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
- Fair Information Principles
- Family Educations Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- FAQs
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Film / documentary
- Financial Privacy
- First Principles
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Foreign policy
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- FTC filing
- Future of Privacy
G
- G20
- GAO
- GDPR
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
- Genetic Privacy
- Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Genomic Big Data
- Global data governance
- Global Health
- Global privacy
- Governance
- Government privacy
H
- Health Information Ecosystems
- Health Information Exchanges
- Health Privacy
- Health Records
- HIPAA
- HIPAA Waiver
- How-to
- Human Subject Research Protection
I
- ID Cards
- ID Ecosystem
- Identity
- Identity Theft
- Inclusion / Exclusion
- Information Brokers
- Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
- International Privacy
- International Privacy Day
- Internet of Things
- Internet Privacy
- Interview
- iPhone
J
K
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M
- Machine Learning
- Madrid Declaration
- Maps, Apps, and Privacy Data Visualizations
- Medical Identity Theft
- Medicare and privacy
- Mobile Apps
- Mobile Privacy
- Modern Permanent Record
- Modern privacy
- Mongolia
N
- National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
- National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
- National Health Information Network (NHIN)
- National ID
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)
- NIST AISIC
- Notice of Proposed Rule-making Comment
- NTIA
- NTIA Multistakeholder Process
O
- OECD
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Online advertising
- Online Privacy
- Online/Offline
- Op-Ed
- Opt Out
- or Conventions
- OSHA
P
- Patient ID
- Patient Privacy
- Patient's Guide to HIPAA
- Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM)
- Personal Health Record (PHR)
- Personal Identity Verification
- Pharmacogenomics
- PIPA
- Podcast: Privacy on the Ground
- Poverty & Privacy
- Precision Medicine Initiative
- Predictive Analytics
- Privacy & women
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Privacy by obscurity
- Privacy Ethics
- Privacy for Teens
- Privacy Gap
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Privacy in the Clouds
- Privacy Law
- Privacy News
- Public Comments
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- Public Records
Q
R
- Radio
- Real ID
- Real Time Computing
- Red Flag Rule
- Region: Africa
- Region: EU
- Region: India
- Regulatory
- Reimagining privacy
- Report Announcement
- Report: 2003 Job Search Privacy Study
- Report: A Year in the Life of an Online Job Scam - A Longitudinal Study
- Report: Call Don't Click I - Why it's smarter to order federally mandated free credit reports via telephone
- Report: Call Don't Click II: Still be smart about ordering federally mandated free credit reports
- Report: Data Brokers and the Federal Government
- Report: From the Filing Cabinet to the Cloud - Updating the Privacy Act of 1974
- Report: Many Failures - A Brief History of Privacy Self-Regulation
- Report: Medical Identity Theft - The Information Crime that Can Kill You
- Report: One Way Mirror Society
- Report: Paying Out of Pocket to Protect Health Privacy - A New but Complicated HIPAA Option
- Report: Personal Health Records - Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy
- Report: Privacy in the Clouds
- Report: Privacy Shield Analysis -- Winners and Losers
- Report: Privacy, the Precision Medicine Initiative & the All of Us Research Program: Will Any Legal Protections Apply?
- Report: Resume Database Nightmare - Job Seeker Privacy at Risk
- Report: Risky Analysis - Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools
- Report: The Geography of Medical Identity Theft
- Report: The National Advertising Initiative - Failing at Consumer Protection and at Self-Regulation
- Report: The Precision Medicine Initiative - What Laws Apply?
- Report: The Scoring of America
- Report: The US Department of Commerce and International Privacy Activities -- Indifference and Neglect
- Research
- Retail Privacy
- RFID
- Right to Be Forgotten
- Right to be forgotten (EU)
- Risk assessment
S
- SACGHS
- Safe Harbor (EU)
- Scams
- SEC
- Security Freeze
- Self-regulation
- Senior privacy
- Sensitive Data issues
- Smart Grid
- Smartphones and gadgets
- Social Networks
- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
- Statistical Parity
- Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
- Student privacy
- Student Privacy 101 Series
- Surveillance
- System of Records Notices (SORNs)
T
- T20
- Teen privacy
- Testimony and Speeches
- The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)
- The Scoring of America
- Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
- Twin Transition
U
- U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC)
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- U.S. Treasury Department
- UN SDGs
- United Nations / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- US Customs and Border Protection
- US Department of Education
- US Department of Energy
- US Department of Homeland Security
- US Department of Justice
- US Department of Labor
- US Department of State
- US Department of Transportation
- US Postal Service
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
V
- Vaccine Certificates
- Vermont Data Broker Bill
- Video - India Privacy Series
- Video -- Biometric Series
- Video -- Health Tech Series
- Video --Health Information Exchanges Series
- Video Posts
- VZBW
W
- Webinar
- Wellness programs
- White House
- WHOIS
- Workplace Privacy
- WPF Announcement
- WPF Issue Brief
- WPF Resources Page